The importance of taking into account multiple dimensions of well-being in the measurement of poverty has been … emphasized in the recent literature. The poverty alleviation literature has not, however, yet addressed the important issue of … policy design for efficient multidimensional poverty reduction. From a normative perspective, it can be argued that, in …

It is common to argue that poverty is a multidimensional issue. Yet few studies have included the various dimensions of … deprivation to yield a broader and fuller picture of poverty. In this paper we discuss ethical foundations of various recent … multidimensional poverty measures. An application of these measures to compare poverty between Egypt and south Africa is illustrated …

Measures of unemployment and poverty have tended to focus solely on those currently unemployed or below the poverty … line. This approach has ignored the members of society that are vulnerable to becoming unemployed or falling into poverty … of becoming unemployed or falling into poverty, our standard measures of unemployment and poverty do not accurately …

attention has been devoted to the impact of differential price movements on the measurement of poverty and inequality. This …Post-apartheid poverty and inequality trends have been the subject of intensive analysis, yet relatively little … paper aims to tell the story of the evolution of both money-metric and non-money-metric poverty and inequality in post …